The fact that microsoft is willing to abandon silverlight so soon does
indeed have a mundane and reasonable explanation: They wanted a horse in
the RIA race 'just incase'.
But this is where it falls down:
They didn't say that. They sold it like it was the greatest thing since
elvis. Which is fine, I guess, I mean, it's a business marketing its own
product, what else would we expect?
Still, clearly it is very smart for me to abhor anything microsoft builds,
especially if it is not _usefully_ open (with 'usefully' defined as: You
can get your support and library needs from all over, and the odds of being
incapable of finding a thing that is compatible with everything you build
in the future is large). They will just plain drop whatever the heck they
please, with nary a thought for all those poor shops that are now stuck
having expended all this research and training on a product that is now
basically DOA.
Is Microsoft the only company that does this? Heck no, so many do. But
microsoft does it too, and that's the important part.
NB: I don't advise people to go with JavaFX either. HTML. Been saying it
for years.
On Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:53:38 AM UTC+2, Casper Bang wrote:
>
>
> I just listened to #390.
>>
>> I love the show, been listening for years and years. You even read one of
>> my emails once.
>>
>> But dear god you start to sound like babbling idiots when you talk about
>> Microsoft. You don't know what you're talking about and it is
>> deeply embarrassing. Please just avoid the topic!
>>
>
> I just listened to #390 as well, and what surprises me is that, rather
> than trying to go back to what was actually said ("I haven't been back to
> listen to it") and correct some of this, Dick tries to redefine it
> while arguing the critique was taken out of context (by definition, his
> very own context from #386)?! Carl and Tor actually has some lucid and
> valid arguments and as I've said before, it's *fine* to be critical at
> Microsoft and related technologies - but don't cook up a fake reality as if
> you're some republican congressman from Missouri - makes you look really
> dumb.
>
> Rather than subjective gut feelings and make-belief conspiracies, ask
> yourself the following questions:
>
> Why did Microsoft cook up Silverlight?
> [As Carl says, to have a horse in the RIA race that nobody knew the
> importance of at the time.]
>
> Can you consume JavaFX/WebStart RIA stuff on a fresh Ubuntu install?
> [Not without first installing the IcedTea Java plugin from the community
> much like one has to install the Moonlight plugin for Silverlight.]
>
> Why did NetFlix go with Silverlight rather than Java/Flash for their 25
> mio. subscribers?
> [Because Linux is a minority, and both the JRE and Flash lacks codecs and
> DRM support.]
>
> Why is Microsoft now abandoning Silverlight?
> [Much like Oracle is abandoning JavaFX and Adobe is abandoning Flash, the
> general consensus is that the future is HTML5 and MPEG DASH.]
>
> Why is Moonlight being abandoned?
> [It would be pretty dumb for the Mono community to invest more of their
> previous resources in Moonlight, when Microsoft is abandoning Silverlight.]
>
> Perhaps a bit boring compared to the soap-opera hodgepodge in the podcast,
> but I'd argue, more accurate.
>
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